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The MCKAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 36,948 853 0.014 137
United States (1880 census) 69 40342 0 1
Change since 1880 +36879 +39489 +N/A +136
Other Countries
Australia 6,644 190 0.041 406
United Kingdom 15,132 389 0.033 329
Top States for MCKAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,161 1012 0.009 93
Texas 2,282 1098 0.011 109
Florida 2,265 868 0.014 142
Michigan 2,221 417 0.022 223
New York 1,816 959 0.010 96
Top States for MCKAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 511 453 0.040 401
Montana 279 292 0.031 309
North Dakota 193 308 0.030 301
Mississippi 804 534 0.028 283
Alaska 167 395 0.027 266

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MCKAY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MCKAY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MCKAY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MCKAY by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MCKAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MCKAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MCKAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MCKAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 606 1.64
White (Hispanic) 602 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 410 1.11
Asian/Pacific 192 0.52
White (Caucasian) 30,356 82.16
Black/African American 4,785 12.95

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MCKAY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MCKAY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MCKAY.

Similar names to MCKAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCKAY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MCKAY

The following words are slight variants of MCKAY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.